Optimal margin and edge-enhanced intensity maps in the presence of motion and uncertainty

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 515-533

  Chan, Timothy C Y ^a   Tsitsiklis, John N ^b   Bortfeld, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE ENHANCEMENTS; INTENSITY MAPS; RADIATION THERAPY; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOTAL DOSE;

OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; STATISTICS;

TUMORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NEOPLASM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; NEOPLASMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 74549166252     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/012     Document Type: Article

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